Where do working class families live?

[Anonymous]

Ditto - I did not name Germantown and Gaithersburg because it was already listed. I live there. I would love to have rosanne living in our neighborhood. Our neighborhood is very diverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves just how mean and elitist most people on this forum are. Just admit it, by naming the towns that you are naming, you are basically saying that you are too good for those areas, much better than the "working class" and would never dream of living in those areas because they are just too far from the precious center of the city of DC. People live in the places that you are mentioning and you are basically putting them down. You people make me sick--people are just trying to make a living just like you and me and you can't resist the urge to insult their jobs and their neighborhoods. The snobbery here is astounding!!

And by the way, all of the nurses that I know have a salary that is usually over $80K for working three days a week so hardly working class.

What is insulting about the term "working class"? Our country wouldn't survive long without the working class. The types of jobs usually included as working class jobs are those that keep the world around us running. Carpenters, plumbers, delivery drivers, supermarket cashiers and stockers, and many more- none of us would survive long without the people who do these jobs. People who are working class are proud of their jobs and deserve respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves just how mean and elitist most people on this forum are. Just admit it, by naming the towns that you are naming, you are basically saying that you are too good for those areas, much better than the "working class" and would never dream of living in those areas because they are just too far from the precious center of the city of DC. People live in the places that you are mentioning and you are basically putting them down. You people make me sick--people are just trying to make a living just like you and me and you can't resist the urge to insult their jobs and their neighborhoods. The snobbery here is astounding!!

And by the way, all of the nurses that I know have a salary that is usually over $80K for working three days a week so hardly working class.

What is insulting about the term "working class"? Our country wouldn't survive long without the working class. The types of jobs usually included as working class jobs are those that keep the world around us running. Carpenters, plumbers, delivery drivers, supermarket cashiers and stockers, and many more- none of us would survive long without the people who do these jobs. People who are working class are proud of their jobs and deserve respect.

+1

[Anonymous]

What is working class? What comes after that? What comes before it?

[Anonymous]

Look I grew up in a blue collar family. We considered ourselves lower middle class. We would NEVER have used the term working class. To me that denoted families that were loving paycheck to paycheck...and had much less than we did.

[Anonymous]

Answering the original question, I named locations I thought would be affordable. This area is so expensive. We have masters degrees (and student loans--a given with my blue collar background) and live in NE DC.

[Anonymous]

Blue collar and working class are roughly interchangeable: no insult involved with either term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blue collar and working class are roughly interchangeable: no insult involved with either term.

Sorry, but blue collar families do find the term 'working class' offensive.

[Anonymous]

OP is being another snob on this forum; so you want to know where 'they' live so you can avoid being situated near 'those' people? Why ask this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:parts of falls church (not city, ffx cty), pimmit hills, some parts of alexandria, and springfield.

Pimmit Hill was originally working class, and parts of it retain the look. However, working-class families looking to buy right now have been priced out of it.

[Anonymous]

OP here, I'm looking for a community like the one I was raised in. We were working class, single parent family. Work paid the bills and kept the lights on. The Cosby show was what I dreamed of having not what we had. I am looking for the sense of community that will feel like home. I have no clue how much Tory Burch costs or who he or she is. I'm not even sure how to spell the name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blue collar and working class are roughly interchangeable: no insult involved with either term.

Poster with blue collar origens here. Again, I do not find these interchangeable. My family did not consider itself "working class" at all. It would indeed be offensive to my parents. We had a house in the suburbs, two cars, plenty to eat, (modest) vacations every summer...we were middle class. Lower middle class but middle class for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woodbridge, Dumfries, Manassas, Sterling.

+1. Or Maryland

[Anonymous]

What is working class? Please give me a definition. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blue collar and working class are roughly interchangeable: no insult involved with either term.

Poster with blue collar origens here. Again, I do not find these interchangeable. My family did not consider itself "working class" at all. It would indeed be offensive to my parents. We had a house in the suburbs, two cars, plenty to eat, (modest) vacations every summer...we were middle class. Lower middle class but middle class for sure.

You're the one who is coming across as the snob.


-signed, Working Class and proud of it.